We Have a Winner!

McGlothlin is a retired Baptist pastor who now spends a good deal of his time woodworking. He starting making wooden toys when his children were small, but has since bitten into a few larger furniture projects now that he has the time – he enjoys working with the locally native Texas mesquite. (The picture at left shows him with a mesquite table and Lazy Susan he made.) He tells us that his current lathe is not variable speed, a feature he has long desired, and that he’s looking forward to growing his skills with the new one.

We’re very excited that the lathe is going to a good home, but I have admit the staff here at the magazine has been upstaged. It turns out that just before he received our congratulatory email, he became a grandfather for the first time to a beautiful baby boy! Quite the memorable week… We can only imagine that the young lad will grow up in his grandpa’s shop learning to build furniture and turn wood.